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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Estimating the reproduction number and transmission heterogeneity from the size distribution of clusters of identical pathogen sequences.

Cécile Tran-Kiem, Trevor Bedford

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Cécile Tran-KiemVaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109.ORCID 0000-0003-0563-8428
Trevor BedfordVaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109.

Funding

Real-time tracking of virus evolution for vaccine strain selection and epidemiological investigationR35GM119774 · NIGMS · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI BEDFORD, TREVOR BC · 2016 to 2025
$4.1M
High-Performance Compute Cluster for Comprehensive Cancer and Infectious Diseases ResearchS10OD028685 · OD · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI BRADLEY, PHILIP · 2020 to 2020
$2.0M
FHCRC High-Performance Computing ClusterS10OD020069 · OD · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI KOOPERBERG, CHARLES L · 2015 to 2015
$600k
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM119774NIH HHS S10 OD020069NIH HHS S10 OD028685
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantifying transmission intensity and heterogeneity is crucial to ascertain the threat posed by infectious diseases and inform the design of interventions. Methods that jointly estimate the reproduction number

Indexed as

Communicable DiseasesContact TracingHumansPhylogenygenetic clusterspolytomiesreproduction numbersuperspreadingtransmission heterogeneity

Identifiers

PMID38568971
PMCPMC11009662

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